Touché. You are absolutely right; the fundamental assumptions between open products and purchased products are definitely at odds with one another.

Hmm. Perhaps it'd be better for Jolla to just completely spin off products like the browser, and focus solely on the core OS. Maybe even license a closed-source browser from, say, Google or somebody. This way, they could concentrate their efforts on a smaller amount of open code, and thus do a better job with it. In other words, a less open Jolla might make everyone happier!

But yeah, deep down in my ideological heart, whenever I hear someone complaining that a piece of open source code needs work, I still want to jump up and say "so why haven't you fixed it yourself?" To me, that's the only real advantage of open software, regardless of who created it or why...